On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 11:39:29AM -0500, Chris St. Pierre wrote: > I've often wondered, is there any real advantage to using labels > instead of physical device names? David, you mentioned that it's to > avoid using the device names, but I've never found that to be a > particularly burdensome task, or something I'd like to avoid. What's > the gain from using labels? Labels can save you from MAJOR problems in a lot of specific situations. Imagine that you have 3 disks, sda, sdb, and sdc. Now imagine that sdb fails hard. You reboot and what was sdc is now sdb. You will mount that filesystem on the wrong mount point and suddenly cause yourself all sorts of grief and possible disk corruption depending on how well behaved your applications are. Imagine that sdb was your backup drive and you did an rsync --delete from sda to sdb automatically via cron or in rc.local. Kiss all the data that was on sdc goodbye. Use labels - they're there to help you. -- Ed Wilts, RHCE Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:ewilts@xxxxxxxxxx Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Program -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
